UHV makes friends (and does business) in China
If you have young children, and I have three, you know that there is a lot of wisdom embedded in their literature, stories, poems, music, etc. In fact, I often think what a peaceful and prosperous world this would be ...

Campaign Victoria offers chance to support student scholarships
UHV is among the best values in the state – ranking the sixth most affordable public university, according to Texas Higher Education Coordination Board data. In fact, based on the cost of 12 semester credit hours in 2008, students saved ...

Academic journals such as UHV’ symplokē garner respect for universities
University professors, by definition, are experts in their fields. They’ve often spent a lifetime and poured considerable intellectual energy into steeping themselves in the body of knowledge that comprises a particular discipline. Of course, they carry the academic credentials, such ...

UHV works to recruit freshmen outside region
We’re working hard to spread the word outside of our immediate area about the University of Houston Victoria’s new status as a genuine four-year university accepting freshmen on up in the fall of 2010. The competition for qualified students is ...

UHV follows competition, issues with Chronicle of Higher Ed
Like any “trade” or profession, higher education has its “go-to” publication for all that’s fit to print. In our case, it is the Chronicle of Higher Education. If you are interested in such recent topics as the characteristics of successful ...

Banned Books Week
I am an avid reader. I suppose I come by it honestly. I mean, I am an academic, a professor. And my mother was a librarian – in a one-room library where she thought her job was to read all ...

Help name the UHV jaguar sculpture
Earlier this fall, thanks to the generosity of local artist Harold Nichols, we installed a 250-pound, life-sized, plate steel jaguar sculpture on the UHV campus. It already has become the photo spot of choice, situated between our two main buildings, ...

The 'business' of higher education
Sure, a university is and ought to be a place of learning, contemplation, enlightenment, cutting-edge research and intellectual activity. But it is also a business – and in the case of UHV, a growing one. UHV has made tremendous progress ...

The college 'core' and what to read
You’ve heard the old adage: You are what you eat. But in this knowledge-based, global economy, maybe we need to paraphrase this to: You are what you READ. So, here comes the $64,000 question – just what SHOULD we read? ...

SACS accreditation is mark of excellence for UHV
“Accreditation” is a term you hear a lot in our business – as in “UHV is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the South.” Referred ...